The trial in the "Respirators" case ended today in the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which Fadil Novalić, Prime Minister of FB&H, Jelka Milićević, Federal Minister of Finance, Fahrudin Solak, suspended director of FCPA and Fikret Hodžić, owner of "Srebrna malina" are accused of a corruption affair worth 10.5 million KM.
Today, prosecutors continued to question witness Bahra Džaka, the secretary in the Office of the accused Novalić, who knew about all the offers that reached the Government, including those of "Srebrena malina" by Fikret Hodžić.
When asked by prosecutor Mirza Hukeljić, she replied that it was not an envelope that went to the director of KCUS, Sebija Izetbegović, by mistake, "but a piece of paper with the handwritten „Canada“ " on it.
She confirmed that several offers had arrived at the Office of the Government of FB&H, at least three, and that the last offer was from Fikret Hodžić and "Srebrena malina".
However, as she said, this offer of "Srebrena malina" did not seem serious to her, which is why she did not send it to the FB&H Public Health Institute.
Only at the end of May can we deliver the first quantities. There are 400 pieces in stock, price 90,000 KM + VAT. That is the only thing that is available today. This is best in class. They can be delivered in Sarajevo in seven days – it is written in one of Hodžić's messages to Džaka.
She also confirmed that in later correspondence with Hodžić, he sent an e-mail stating that the government must send a letter of intent to the Chinese, and even sent a letter of intent from the Serbian government about buying respirators, which they sent to China.
Džaka said that the Government wrote the letter and translated it into English, but that by mistake, she wrote 200 respirators, not a hundred.
She said that when the respirators came, it turned out that they were not looking for ACM812 respirators but others, HCVE003.
She added that the first letter of intent signed on 2nd of April was an offer for HC-VE003 respirators, but that a second letter was signed on 15th of April relating to ACM812A respirators.
She confirmed that both letters were signed by Prime Minister Fadil Novalić and that he then sent her a message after respirators came to B&H.
-Please check this one more time. I found out about the AM812A from the media. That one did not cross us- Novalić wrote to the secretary, and she had previously written to him "as far as I remember, there are none of those we asked for"
Also, she didn't have answers to some questions because she said she doesn't remember everything.